miniblog.

https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-02-27-why-we-designed-tigerbeetles-docs-from-scratch/ has an interesting distinction between "physical" and "logical" hash of a tarball. By storing the hash of the decompressed tarball contents (i.e. the logical hash), they can verify the validity of files without needing to keep the tarball around.

Perl 6 may be moving to a C vs C++ distinction with Perl 5: similar languages, but not the same.

When I started out writing lisp, I found the distinction between foo and 'foo tricky to grasp. It bothered me that 'foo wasn't printed 'foo. I think this is easier to learn when symbols are printed differently. If 'foo is printed user::foo it's easier to grasp what a symbol is.